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Nocheez posted:It's easier to hit home runs in Denver because of the lower air resistance. fair. i meant more about the cardio of athletes training there? I know some UFC fighters go to higher altitudes. BASICALLY, should I bet on the Denver Nuggets to win the finals in the NBA? IcePoseidon is showing technical difficulties on his stream now, lol.
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blight rhino posted:So, topic-adjacent, do teams from like Denver and such have an advantage over the "low-land" teams? South Africa are often said to be harder to beat at, like, Ellis Park (Johannesburg) or Loftus Versfeld (Pretoria) because they’re on the Highveldt. Kicks at goal definitely go further there.
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Nocheez posted:It's easier to hit home runs in Denver because of the lower air resistance. It is harder for an away team because the laser horse will shoot it down
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› Mount Everest: wayy to many structural issues
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blight rhino posted:fair. i meant more about the cardio of athletes training there? I know some UFC fighters go to higher altitudes. i imagine NFL teams visiting Denver bring/use more oxygen than when they travel other places the US Olympic team has massive multi-sport facilities in Colorado Springs: https://www.teamusa.org/about-the-usopc/olympic-paralympic-training-centers/csoptc/facilities
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blight rhino posted:BASICALLY, should I bet on the Denver Nuggets to win the finals in the NBA? Probably, but not because of the altitude. They're just playing better than anyone right now. They've never won a title before, so I don't think the altitude is a gigantic advantage.
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I didn’t realise but today, May 29 is the anniversary of Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Mount Everest. It is now 70 years since that first successful ascent.
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Varkk posted:I didn’t realise but today, May 29 is the anniversary of Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent of Mount Everest. It is now 70 years since that first successful ascent. And despite after them telling everyone "nah there's just a bunch of rocks up here, nothing to see really" people still kept going up. 
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There is a statue of Hillary in my home town and its been there my entire life. Fun fact about the guy who made it that you guys might appreciate. https://www.stuff.co.nz/ipad-editors-picks/10140548/I-didn-t-die-in-Syria-Kiwi-artist quote:A Syrian representative at the United Nations said during the weekend that a New Zealander had been killed in fighting, and authorities here confirmed that but did not name him. 
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I was listening to Radio 4 on the way home from work the other day and brown Moses was on the programme. Most surprising. It was the media show in case you were interested .
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Altitude: 810ft Pulse: 75bpm Pulse ox: 98% Had to walk up the stairs to take a poo poo; pretty certain that’s equivalent to hiking to base camp. Had been a full 12 hours since my last due to being out and about (I wouldn’t lower myself to a public toilet). I feel good and empty after, basically ready to take on Mount Everest.
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Confusedslight posted:There is a statue of Hillary in my home town started reading this very confused as to why anyone would have constructed a statue of hillary clinton
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:started reading this very confused as to why anyone would have constructed a statue of hillary clinton To destroy an effigy?
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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:started reading this very confused as to why anyone would have constructed a statue of hillary clinton Dedication to all those whose turn it is at the top
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HiroProtagonist posted:Brown Moses fat rear end wouldn't last a second over 10000 ft I can't blame him, last time I hiked a mountain a tooth cracked at about 6500 feet. And it's not like I had put off dentist visits beforehand or anything. I think if I tried Everest my whole skull would just explode at one point.
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https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2023/05/30/everest-2023-an-end-to-a-tough-season/ good article tl;dr this season was a complete shitshow
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Hang on, hang on.... there's a 49 year old bloke up there called Kenton Cool? e: and he's married to someone called Jazz Black??
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Sounds like the writers got pretty lazy this season.
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Plus the love triangle with Sherberta Slopes.
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Chrpno posted:Hang on, hang on.... there's a 49 year old bloke up there called Kenton Cool? “Is there a Dwight Rortugal in the house?”
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ethanol posted:https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2023/05/30/everest-2023-an-end-to-a-tough-season/ quote:After several seasons of cleaning Everest and high-profile Nepali operators raising money to remove the trash, report after report is coming in that the high camps are in horrible condition, especially Camp 4 at the South Col. I wonder where all that money went. Also someone on the cleanup crew died
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New rule: you don't get to summit until you've taken down some trash. No I don't care if it's your first time, call it an acclimatization run. Maybe it'll put them off and save lives (who am I kidding, half of them will fall off the edge picking up a gas bottle).
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gentleman please! no thefts, this is the death zone!!
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ewe2 posted:New rule: you don't get to summit until you've taken down some trash. No I don't care if it's your first time, call it an acclimatization run. Maybe it'll put them off and save lives (who am I kidding, half of them will fall off the edge picking up a gas bottle). They just need to gamify it. The more trash you pick up the further up the mountain you're allowed to go! Then you they want even need to figure out how to bury any bodies as they'll all be buried under piles of trash!
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ethanol posted:https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2023/05/30/everest-2023-an-end-to-a-tough-season/ So much chaos above basecamp it's sad those mighty adventurers who don't make it to basecamp don't even get a mention.
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There was a video on the front page of Reddit a few days ago showing the mess on the South Col. It looked like a tornado had torn up a tent factory. The Kangshung face of Everest is just on the other side of that saddle. Nobody goes there. I bet there's tons and tons of crap chucked down into it.
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ethanol posted:https://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2023/05/30/everest-2023-an-end-to-a-tough-season/ They really need to implement tighter controls on who is allowed to attempt to climb, like, you should have extensive snow/ice/rock climbing experience as well as summit a few 7000m+ peaks before being allowed to consider pursuing Everest. They made the guides mandatory in order to try to reduce deaths from inexperienced climbers but they should honestly make it more difficult to be approved for a permit. The mandatory guides are not really reducing climber deaths and are putting more Sherpas at risk of harm or death.
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I can see a regulatory scheme where you have to do a less-busy Nepali summit or three to get your Everest permit and it ends up helping the overall Nepali mountain economy while lowering Everest traffic. The tourist climbers will be paying for guides and porters on the slightly lower peaks as well, and people would get to find out their body isn't capable of Himalayan altitudes well before they experience Everest continuation bias.
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Everest timeshares? But these are the kind of people who live for these sales pitches!
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mandatory two off-street parking spaces per dwelling on the peak of everest. four lane expressways, dunkin'. idling your 2005 dodge durango and demanding your barista write the constitution on your coffee cup on the sacred summit of chomolungma
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Ohtori Akio posted:I can see a regulatory scheme where you have to do a less-busy Nepali summit or three to get your Everest permit and it ends up helping the overall Nepali mountain economy while lowering Everest traffic. The tourist climbers will be paying for guides and porters on the slightly lower peaks as well, and people would get to find out their body isn't capable of Himalayan altitudes well before they experience Everest continuation bias. I heard they tried to implement this exact thing before. Not sure how far it got, if it got past basic planning or whatever. people were pissed that it had to be a Nepal mountain so was more about profit than climbing experience
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ethanol posted:I heard they tried to implement this exact thing before. Not sure how far it got, if it got past basic planning or whatever. people were pissed that it had to be a Nepal mountain so was more about profit than climbing experience How dare Nepal be maximally compensated for the destruction and abuse of their natural wonders! The audacity!
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